{"id":4310,"date":"2009-04-25T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rays-athletics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:50:00","slug":"rays-athletics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rays-athletics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Athletics Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Oakland Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Garza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Garza<\/st2:Sn> has a 1-1 record and a 4.58 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Garza<\/st2:Sn>‘s opponent in this one will be Dallas Braden. The Athletics lefthander has a 2.79 ERA to go along with a 1-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Pena<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted two home runs in leading the Rays<\/st2:Sn> to a 8-2 win over the A’s in the opener of a three-game series, as -130 favorites. That game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pena<\/st2:Sn> went 2-for-5 at the plate with four RBIs for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>. Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Kazmir<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went six innings on the mound for the win, allowing just two hits in collecting his third victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jack<\/st2:GivenName> Hanrahan<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered in a losing effort for the A’s, who were +110 underdogs. Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and seven runs in under three innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 7-10 SU
Oakland: 5-10 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Oakland are 5-5
After playing Oakland are 6-4
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After playing Tampa Bay are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oakland
Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Oakland
Tampa Bay is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games
Oakland is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home
Oakland is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
Oakland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Oakland is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Sunday, April 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Oakland Coliseum. The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Matt Garza in this game. Garza has a 1-1 record and a 4.58 ERA this season. Garza‘s opponent in … Continue reading Rays-Athletics Odds Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}